Monthly Archives: July 2013

Rose as usual ― & penned ―: & after breakfat ― penned & arranged drawings till 2.30, when I went to the Station, & to Twickenham at 3.15 ― Strawberry Hill by 4. No one there. Walked about the Garden ― & thought no end. Came the 2 Clermonts, & later Hon. J. Cole ― whom I met in Ireland in 1837. What a curiosity of combinations. Shewing the Farm, Dairy, house &c. &c. took up till 7.15.

Dinner ―

The Evening passed really pleasantly. I sang also a good bit. Afterwards, C.F. came to my room & sate ― till 12 ― (The Telegram has gone out to Corfû ― the Parliament to be dissolved. The “Ionian Judges” case thickens. ―)

Worked at the new 20 set sketches of the 7 Islands ― (rough designs for the Ionian work,) more or less till 3. But Lawson came, & much time went with him: a kindly good fellow: he has been in Norway. ― Then Hon. F. Lygon, whose name brings back Hastings & Syracuse ― 1852!! ― Ahi!

Then ― Bonham Carter ― sad memories also, & more so.

At 3.45. cab to Lincoln’s Inn Fields, & got some intelligence from Day & Co. about Lithographic processes. ― Bought a Facsimile of Turners Liber Studiorum.[1] ―Walked to Wyatt ― leaving the book there, & going on to Winsor & Newton: ― returning slowly by 6 to Wyatt’s. Then I sate with Constance & Mrs. Wyatt till nearly 7.

Dinner & Evening ― always pleasant ― as always there.

Home by 11. & found all the rest of Tarrant’s mounted drawings. ―

[1] This must be a collection of photographic reproductions from Turner’s Liber Studiorum. According to Ruth Pitman, Edward Lear’s Tennyson, p. 19, Lear owned two copies of the work, one in mezzotint and one in autotype, the latter, Turner’s Liber Studiorum. Reproduced in Facsimile by the Autotype Process, was published only 1871. See “Liber Studiorum: Drawings and Related Works c. 1806-24” on Tate’s website.